/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10938571]

Isn't it kind of pointless to discuss food if there's no real way to share how something tastes?

[Anonymous No.10938721]

>there's no real way to share how something tastes?

Someone should invent something whereby you can list the contents of a meal, describing their mass and ratios, and how to mix them together and to cook them.

That would be awesome if someone invented something lie that.

[Anonymous No.10938731]

>>10938721
>buy wrong brand
>changed entirely

[Anonymous No.10938886]

>>10938731
Are you dumb enough to believe that?

[Anonymous No.10938911]

>>10938886
Maybe he only bakes using Professional Eggs.

[Anonymous No.10938967]

>>10938721
But how do I know it's gonna be good? You can show me a fancy picture of the meal, list the ingedrients but I still have to take your word on how it tastes.

[Anonymous No.10939044]

>>10938967
How do you know that an apple will be good before you bite into it?

[Anonymous No.10939045]

>>10938571
Experience with a variety of foods, spices, ingredients, etc., should enable you to come up with a fairly accurate hypothesis about what it will taste like to you. A more interesting question would be do others experience the same taste and flavor sensations for the same dishes as you do. Kind of like are colors seen the same by other people or is what I see as purple seen as what would be the way someone else sees as red.

[Anonymous No.10939081]

>>10939044
I'm thinking more about the problem of sharing tastes and flavors in some way. Like, I bite into this apple to taste it. Now I want to share what I've just tasted in a way that you can taste the very exact same thing too in an instant. Like sharing a picture or music. Instead of shipping my nasty bitten apple to you across the world there should be some device that can emulate flavours and replicate them.

[Anonymous No.10939110]

>>10939081
Are you on drugs?

[Anonymous No.10939119]

>>10939110
No, just very lonely on a friday evening.

[Anonymous No.10939151]

>>10939119
But Anon, you always have a friend in Jesus.

[Anonymous No.10939245]

>>10938571
Experience is solitary. Can you ever truly, fully, share how pain feels? How sadness feels? What the color red looks like?

We build upon our shared experiences of things we're familiar with. Red isn't an objective meaning, we've just all seen things that we understand represent the common idea of red.

Language is limited by these agreed on definitions, but it will always be an approximation. We do the best we can to share experiences with what we can do.

[Anonymous No.10939280]

>>10938967
You don't, you go by how it sounds. If you like X,Y and Z vegetables and you see a recipe containing X Y and Z vegetables, everything else being equal you'll probably like that dish. But you won't know unless you try, and you wouldn't try it in the first place if someone hadn't given you the idea, assuming you found the recipe online or in a cookbook or something.

[Anonymous No.10939319]

>>10938967
>I still have to take your word on how it tastes.

How so? Can't you come up with a pretty good guess based on the description overall and your knowledge of similar dishes? Granted it might not be 100% reliable but it seems like it is perfectly sufficient.

[Anonymous No.10941442]

>>10938571
We discuss recipes then

[Anonymous No.10941473]

>>10938731
Wrong brand of what exactly? There's only one specifically named product (golden syrup) and it's only mentioned as an alternative or substitute ingredient...

[Anonymous No.10941574]

i only come to /ck/ for the memes

[Anonymous No.10942535]

>>10938721
>Someone should invent something whereby you can list the contents of a meal, describing their mass and ratios, and how to mix them together and to cook them.
I would also like this, but for smell
Imagine the possibilities